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כתובות 112:2

Soncino English Talmud · Berean Standard Bible

used to rise [from their seats  to move] from the sun to the shade  and from the shade to the sun.  R. Hiyya b. Gamda  rolled himself in its  dust, for it is said in Scripture, For Thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and love her dust. R. Zera said: R. Jeremiah b. Abba stated, 'In the generation in which the son of David  will come there will be prosecution  against scholars'. When I repeated this statement in the presence of Samuel, he exclaimed, [There will be] test after test,  for it is said in Scripture, And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up. R. Joseph learnt:  [There will be] plunderers  and plunderers of the plunderers. R. Hiyya b. Ashi stated in the name of Rab: In the time to come all the wild trees of the Land of Israel will bear fruit; for it is said in Scripture, For the tree  beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.